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google-code-updates.blogspot.com - 10/21/2008

Google Code Blog: Introducing the Gears Geolocation API for all laptop WiFi users

— google-code-updates.blogspot.com — By Charles Wiles, Product Manager, Google Mobile Team I am thrilled to announce that today we have... enhanced the Gears Geolocation API so that developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of ... (more) Google Code Blog: Introducing the Gears Geolocation API ...

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arstechnica.com - 10/22/2008

Google Gears enhances geolocation with WiFi positioning

— arstechnica.com — Google adds WiFi positioning to its Gears Geolocation API, becoming the latest firm to pair hints from... wireless signals with a guess at latitude and longitude. The addition works in browsers and on mobile devices. Read More... (more) Google Gears enhances geolocation with WiFi positioning

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readwriteweb.com - 10/15/2008

The First New York Times API is Live

— readwriteweb.com — The much-anticipated first Application Programming Interface (API) from the New York Times went live today, according to... a post on the company's blog Open - All the code that's fit to printf() . First up is a campaign finance data API and next is a ... (more) The First New York Times API is Live

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Google's Gears gives laptops location smarts
Webware.com — ... Also, programmers don't need to know which underlying mechanism provides the service. "Because the Geolocation API is the same for developers in both desktop and mobile browsers you can even use the same code on both platforms," said Charles Wiles, product manager of the Google mobile team, in the ...

Google unveils API for building apps that can track laptops
Latest from Computerworld — ... has enhanced its Google Gears Geolocation API so that developers can build applications that can track the location of laptop users within 200 meters. The new API, unveiled on Tuesday, builds the initial version of the Geolocation API, which Google Gears developers can use to build Web applications that locate mobile phone users. The API was first released in August. ...

Google Gears Geolocation API for laptop Wi-Fi tech
D' Technology Weblog — ... its open-source Gears project’s “Gears Geolocation API” so that developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of cities around the world. By adding WiFi signals to the Gears Geolocation API, laptop users can benefit from location enabled web sites for the first time and mobile users from the increased accuracy. ...

Google Expands Geolocation API to WiFi
WebProNews Feed — ... Previously Only Available for Mobile Phones Google Gears Google announced that they have expanded the Google Gears Geolocation API to include WiFi compatibility. Previously, it was only available for mobile phones. It is set up so that applications using the API can find WiFi networks within 200m. Google's Geolocation API allows developers to deliver personalized data based on geographic targeting, and in developer-speak allows them to: - Obtain the user's current position, using the getCurrentPosition method - Watch the user's position as it changes over time, using the ...

Google API Helps Track Laptops
PC World Latest Technology News — Google has enhanced its Google Gears Geolocation API so that developers can build applications that can track the location of laptop users within 200 meters. The new API, unveiled on Tuesday, builds the initial version of the Geolocation API, which Google Gears developers can use to build Web applications that locate mobile phone users. The API was first released in August. ...

Getting OpenID Into the Browser
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... can help us get there. While it started as a project by Google to evolve web browsers faster and add needed features like offline support, it's grown beyond that with offline support now coming in HTML 5 and a new Geolocation API. Today Gears runs on half a dozen different browser/platform combinations including FireFox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome and Android. If there was ever a developer platform to build an Open Source cross browser implementation of what OpenID support might look like, Gears seems like the place to do it. Not only does this mean that ...

Google's Latitude Adds Location-Sharing to Mobile Phones
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... Google has actually had many of the tools for building Latitude available to third-parties for a while now. At Where 2.0 last year they announced their intention to release Geolocation Gears API. The other tools needed are ...

Gmail's New 'Add Location' Feature Is Too Honest
Wired: Epicenter — ... to achieve more accurate results. Gears uses wi-fi signals to pin-point your location, and I don't understand what good that would do me on a hardwired desktop PC. Still, I checked out Google's Geolocation API docs, and it seems I could hack together an app that only gathers premises data (usually your building name), and then populate that field with whatever I want ("Mars"). Still, this is not easy. ...

Skyhook Unveils Loads of Browser Location Partner Sites
Wi-Fi Networking News — ... Google, Mozilla, and the W3C are all working on this issue. Google's Gears-based Geolocation API, which works in any browser that supports Gears, was turned into ...

Google Gears Returns to Firefox
Webmonkey — ... Since Gears makes use of a person’s local machine, and since it has the ability to sniff that person’s whereabouts, the enhanced experience it provides is entirely opt-in. ...